Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-26

tatiyes from the committee on WAYS and
means another adverse report upon the
resolutions repeating the tax upon to-
bacco. The report is the House doCu-
ment No. 1881, and contains the follow
ing language: ave are quite contented
to defer action upon the tobacco tai until
the purpose for which it was originally
made has been met, or until by the de
crease Of the public debt and by the
revision OF the present unjust snd
unequaled tariff laws, the rev
eDues TO meet il can be
raised with less haTd6hipS II Is wsr
tax and the hnsncial war Is no. vet ended
and will not be till the last dollar Of The
gar debt is psid, sud the lsst pension is
fully IN. Among the va taxes nov in
force are the tobacco tax, b3th domestic
and foreign; the tax upon spirits and
beer, both domestic srd fCreIgu; upon
imported sugar. All of these ccnbuei
0sIuly suffice to meet the snDual charge
for the cost o! the war which is still upon
as. For these aQd otaar reasons We BE-
lieve It is eXpedjent to maintain the
taXss IS they are"
This is 4 later record OF the National
Democratic party row in power upon the
question of the reneal CT the internal
revenue system, but il must not be for
gotten that the Democratic party wlica
for ten years have from tla last term 81
the Forty seventh Congress controlled tle
House Of Representative where Gag
measure for the repeal or reAuCs0n Of
t2ese taxes could be iuitlattd, failed 70
act on tue subject, ard that it was by she
FJTty-seyertn Congress by the
Republicans that taxes were
reduced $50, Geo 600 agd the tx
on tobacco was reduced from ~ - Is
cents. Yet the leaders of the Dam0cT&. Ic
party ia Nifgiaia would delude the people
into the beli,f that tie repeal Of tlat sys-
ten may now be accomplished by the
Democratic party. II 1854 suca s
pretence was successfully used by stvera.
candidates for Congress. The plan Ess
lhat they needed the presidency 10 secur.
the repeal Of {he system, ard yhe people
were thus deludtd irtO tnoir support.
In 1886 The promise OF thjS repeal was IS
vehemeptly made rs in $50 By several
Democratic candidates for Congress, but
the people could NJ longer be deceived.
The record OF the Democratic admlnistra-
ton Gud Of national Democracy against
the repeal of the system was stronger
thsn auy asseyer&IiCn Of principles OF
this minority, and TIE result
Vas the defeat Of such candidates.
It remains now 10 be tested
whether TIE same hollow preteDses can be
used IN 1887 by the Democratic leader
with any more success t1a1 attended
them in 1886. We declare to you that ut
/ the moment the Republican csrty lost
/ control OF the government it was pre-
/ pared 20 act upon this sGbject, that Pres
!dent Arthur had urged the repeal of the
/ tobacco tex, and the Democratic House,
! with & Republican Senate rts6y to reduce
/ taxes, declined to proceeds That the Re-
publican party is now practically united
/ in favor of the repeal III the tex on to
/ bacco and fruit aNd Oscillations, and that
] if restored to power it Will remove Lhe
burden which these products have so
/ long endured. We assert TO you that
the Democratic party, By an OverWheim-
ing majority IN Congress, Is opposed TO
( the repeal Of the internal revenue system,
/ as is shown by its record and the declara-
tons Of its leading men from President
/ Cleveland down. We appeal to you if
/ you favor the repeal OF that system 10
support the Republican candidates for the
/ Legislature, and not waste your vote on
/ Democratic candidates., whose taction
favoring the repeal Of these taxes is in
the hopeless minority OF its CUn natiCuSi
/ party.
3. As TO the tariff, the platform OF the
ROnoake convention in this respect IS 81
variance with the rec I'd CT the national
Democratic party. II traverses the Ia,
tionaI platf0rm OF the party, the recon-
mendatiOns OF the presiding officer, alC
the PROPOSITIONS OF It's controlling fac
ton III Congress. The R0nO6ke platform
declares IN favor of revenue derived from
q tariff on imports, aud f3vOrs the re-
peal of the internal revenue system,
while the record of the Democratic p:rty
Of the country shows the reverse is tbs
Democratic doctrine. The Democratic
view is the reduction OF import duties
to virtual free trade, and the mainyel-
anCe of the internal revenue system g.
the means ct compelling the adoption c
that un-AmeriCsn policy; ard we arraigi
the ROnoske platform as misleading anl
seeking to deceive the people CI Virgin.
upon C question vital 20 their every inter
est aud TO :he progress and power of tht
state.
1t remains to be seen, fellow citizens
whether you will become the duDes Of th,
pretenses which have made the authors Q
this plstfOrm the Laughing stock of tat
Leading journals OF their own p8Tty. TIL;
Washington Pos. aud the NeWYoTk World
two Of the most influential Democratic
papers of America have declared boldly
enc openly that the plants Of the Ron
cake platform, upon internal revenue an;
the tariff, are dianetriCall7 opposed Il
Democratic principles, and all over IN
: west, north and east, from s.. LoGis su'
Louisville, 10 Boston and Bangor, tn
orthodox organs CT the Democratic part
nave united in deriding ana denouncin
this plaiform.